This Padres-Orioles trade for Dylan Cease wouldn’t include any of their untouchable prospects
The Baltimore Orioles have a chance to acquire Dylan Cease from the San Diego Padres without giving up their best prospects.
The Baltimore Orioles used a few of their top prospects to acquire Corbin Burnes from the Milwaukee Brewers last offseason. After Burnes had an excellent season with Baltimore, he bolted in free agency and signed a massive contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Baltimore failed to bring him back on a contract extension, and it lost a few top 10 prospects in the process.
One year later, the Orioles will need to make the same kind of trade, this time for an expiring Dylan Cease, if they want a chance to compete in the 2025 season. A trade with the San Diego Padres for Cease would be quite expensive for the Orioles to pull off, but they likely wouldn’t part ways with some of their top prospects. Prospects like Coby Mayo and Samuel Basallo are likely off limits in a deal like this, so the Orioles would need to get creative with their package.
This Padres-Orioles trade would bring Baltimore an ace before it’s too late
If the Orioles are going to be stingy on trading prospects like Mayo and Basallo, they’ll likely need to package three or four prospects to get a deal done.
